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“I didn’t have any fallout with Nigel Pearson, he just didn’t see me in his future plans and the direction he was going in at the time.

“I got that sense a couple of weeks before the move happened.

“At the start of pre-season I didn’t envisage leaving at any point, but a few weeks out from deadline day I got more and more used to the idea and once I did leave I didn’t think I would be back at any point.

“Under that manager I don’t think I had any future at the club. I know it was only a loan deal but to all intents and purposes I thought it was a loan with a view to a permanent move.

“There were figures agreed but that never quite materialised.”

Martin has now returned to Derby and will be looking to add the goals which will be lost following the departure of Tom Ince to Huddersfield.